Tag Archives: life

dissection

Posted on April 5, 2019 by sandstarsblog

dissection come brother and feel this pulse rhyming with the flowing red. its presence is evidence that i have a heart like yours. reach closer now and feel me breathe: this chest heaves with the warmth of the sunshine in … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry, politics | Tagged change, chemistry, death, differences, dissection, energy, flow, flux, identity, imagination, life, sameness, separation, similarities, unity | 7 Comments

the falling ( a love story)

Posted on July 20, 2018 by sandstarsblog

the falling (a love story) he feels she likes him she feels he likes her past iambic convos their arms brush electric as armrest fades to clouds this must be love astir floating from their bosoms flutterbies of light and … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, poetry | Tagged breathe, Dark Sky Island, Enya, falling, flight, flutterbies, gravity, iamb, life, light, love, music, passages, passengers, Roma Ryan, sea, The Humming, waves | 11 Comments

this is water

Posted on April 13, 2018 by sandstarsblog

this is water this is water we must learn to love while it embraces us beneath our skins and with our best to keep it pure lest we forget to swim and drown in sins.

Posted in nature, poetry | Tagged borders, boson, creation, dreams, fabrics, harbor, hearts, hours, life, love, shores, sins, skins, The Noble Qur'an, water | 13 Comments

Babel Rising: 5 – In the evening

Posted on March 2, 2018 by sandstarsblog

5 – In the evening In the evening, Salm fixed his room more tidy than usual, combed his hair longer in the mirror and was more particular with the choice of the pajama he put on, before he sat at … Continue reading →

Posted in babel rising - a short story, fiction writing, information technology, science & technology, short story | Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, babel rising, blob, bugs and bytes, communicator, conciliation, database, deep learning, existence, fake persona, fiction, hackers, handshaking, Internet of Things, James Coburn, life, movies, netabase, network, Oopps Factor, Qualia, trolls, UniForce, videocon, viral missiles | 7 Comments

windows are made for breathing

Posted on September 29, 2017 by sandstarsblog

windows are made for breathing even when they’re closed they get more respect than doors that divide when shut or disquiet when open

Posted in haiku, mixed media, nature, photography, poetry | Tagged breathing, doors, eggs, haiku, hatchlings, ledges, life, nesting, pigeons, poetry, tanka, video, windows | 17 Comments

the lives words live

Posted on August 27, 2017 by sandstarsblog

a handful of words conjures imagination stirs a world to life. © SSJ 2017 Author’s Note: Peculiar 5-7-5s And Other Imaginings A haiku or a senryu, or less formally, a poem with a 5-7-5 syllabic construct, while being thrifty with … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, book, haiku, poetry | Tagged 5-7-5, announcement, book, collaboration, creativity, elements, goegel, imagination, imaginings, in progress, life, twitter, words | 3 Comments

A Red Rattle Toy

Posted on August 3, 2017 by sandstarsblog

A red rattle toy, my mother’s gift Rattles violently, bloodshakes my young head. I could not hold it upright, Too small my hands, too finite With ten fingers in vain may clutch A furiously spinning axis: The toy rattles, cradles … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: untitled (1976), poetry | Tagged axis, cradle, earth, entropy, FOCUS Philippines, innocence, life, mother, rattle toy, revolution, satellite, spinning, symphony, untitled collection, vibrations, violence | 1 Comment

rustles of bamboo leaves one fine afternoon (a collection)

Posted on July 14, 2017 by sandstarsblog

‘Rustles of bamboo leaves one fine afternoon’ is not exactly a new collection, though this is the first time that it is being posted for general reading. Written on a bright and breezy March afternoon, in six short parts, shelved … Continue reading →